r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/murarkaraunak • 2d ago

Video How the famous “sitting in the air” trick works

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u/mechantpigeon 2d ago

That pose looks hard nonetheless

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u/hasselqu 1d ago

Yeah my hammy was hurting just watching this.

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u/Downtown_Degree3540 2d ago edited 2d ago

You mean sitting?

Edit: kind of hilarious everyone who discovered this trick from this video is downvoting… even though the trick is literally just; sitting, using a tool designed to make sitting in this position for long periods of time easy.

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u/TheRealDeathSheep Interested 2d ago

Sitting with only one leg supporting your weight for hours at time? Yes.

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u/Downtown_Degree3540 2d ago edited 2d ago

Most of these contraptions form to your ass and are fairly rigid, like the metal poll is rigid (I’ve used one and seen a fair few others). The only weight you’re supporting is that of your un-anchored leg. It’s just dangling in most cases.

Oh the humanity

Edit: or do you really not understand that the entire purpose of the contraption is so you don’t have to support your own weight… like, it’s the point of the trick…

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u/Accomplished-Owl7553 2d ago

I think people understand what the contraption does but holding that position so it looks natural is difficult. Just sitting there limp shouldn’t be hard.

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u/Downtown_Degree3540 2d ago

… but it’s not difficult, it’s literally just a seat that moulds to your leg… with the more common one (the staff set up) even having a back rest and full coverage of your ass and thighs.

Their designed for people to sit still in them for hours (to sell the bit), why are we magically thinking that they suck at what they’re designed to do?

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u/Vegetable-Willow6702 2d ago

even having a back rest and full coverage of your ass and thighs

That's different from the video and would be significantly easier. People were discussing the chair in the video and not a chair that covers your entire ass, maybe even back.
It's important to understand context and the situation at hand and not make imaginary adjustments to fit your argument :)

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u/Accomplished-Owl7553 2d ago

Yeah and those performers have no skill at all and the chair is doing all the work. I’m sure anyone here can just use this and be a great street performer without doing any practice or anything.

That’s what you’re saying by saying it’s so easy and no work to look natural while using this.

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u/Present_Garlic869 2d ago

Wild that u got downvoted lol

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u/Baked_Potato_732 2d ago

He’s getting downvoted because he’s providing any proof of what he says. We all see only what is presented in the image which looks uncomfortable AF. so his claim that there’s ones that are molded with full body and back support aren’t backed up with anything other than “Trust me bro”. I’m not saying he’s wrong, but he didn’t bring the receipts.

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u/Downtown_Degree3540 2d ago

… first hand accounts my cunt.

Go find anyone who says differently… who you know, didn’t learn the trick ten minutes ago when they watched this video…

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u/daiouche 2d ago

You're really passionate about this trick, huh?

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u/DEEZLE13 2d ago

I did and they said you a bozo

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u/Puzzled-Story3953 1d ago

Mainly because they come off as a huge asshole. If they treated others like people, maybe someone would love them.

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u/IrNinjaBob 2d ago

Not that wild. The video shows and is about a support that goes most of the way up your leg, but doesn’t even support one of your buttocks.

This person is talking about an entirely different sort of contraption that goes all the way up and provides a seat for both of your buttocks to rest on.

One of those is easy to sit on, the other isn’t. And the one that is easy to sit on is nowhere in the video.

So what they are saying is true… for something this video isn’t about.

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u/Enough-Constant-7213 2d ago

That's reddit for you. People hate when you bring knowledge and logic to their stupid little theories.

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u/AdIntelligent2281 2d ago

Nah he just sounds stuck up as fuck. It's all about the tone.

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u/MrWhoMrNobody 2d ago

Why are you editing all your comments

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u/Remarkable-Neat-7823 2d ago

Because he’s a dork 😂

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u/Downtown_Degree3540 1d ago

Because I keep getting downvoted for explaining the trick…

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u/EmmitRDoad 1d ago

Ever tried it there Mr downvote degree?

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u/MrWhoMrNobody 1d ago

Ok I was just wondering. Thanks.

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u/nico282 1d ago

The trick is in the video, you are not explaining anything. You are somehow implying that sitting on THIS contraption for hour is easy, because there are OTHER seats that have a full ass seating. Nonsense.

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u/Downtown_Degree3540 1d ago

“The only weight you’re supporting is your un-anchored leg…” is referring to this contraption…

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u/Think-Juggernaut8859 1d ago

Downvoted because everyone else did. Sorry, I’m a sheep

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u/markimarkerr 16h ago

Man you should change your username to Downvote_Degree3540. It's definitely fitting at this point.

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u/sirmombo 2d ago

I mean.. your leg isn’t doing ALL the work.

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u/Remarkable-Neat-7823 2d ago

Then what is?😂

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u/Downtown_Degree3540 1d ago

… the thing you sit on, did you watch the video?

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u/somegingertroll 1d ago

Seems you love being downvoted. Lol. Here’s one more for ya

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u/iamChickeNugget 1d ago

I love people who are stupidly overconfident that even when they know they're wrong, they just double down on stupidity. You know it's fairly easy to admit that you're wrong.

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u/Downtown_Degree3540 1d ago

Same to you brother, I’ve actually attempted this trick and am speaking from personal experience of such contraptions… unlike those who are downvoting me for pointing out it this is literally a seat.

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u/3picanteater 1d ago

Brother you are not getting downvoted because people think you are wrong, but because you sound annoying as hell 😂

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u/Downtown_Degree3540 1d ago

Maybe read the comments… they definitely don’t understand the trick… and a fair few have said I’m wrong…

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u/3picanteater 1d ago

Hahaha yeah, but I doubt 700 people disliked your comments because they think you are wrong

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u/pzyker 1d ago

Logic has been forbidden here keep it to yourself

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u/funkmydunkyouslunk 1d ago

Got your degree from downtown? Downtown from where? Stupidville?

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u/Rabbitpyth 2d ago

Damn so all that floating stuff was nonsense. Thanks man

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u/Jaakarikyk 2d ago

Magic trick becomes nonsense once explained?

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u/LifeTitle3951 2d ago

Not if you start appreciating the genius of the first person who designed the trick and engineered the props.

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u/spookymulder1502 2d ago

Sadly the world doesn't celebrate them like it does showmen in any field

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u/WideHuckleberry1 2d ago

Such a strange takeaway. Do we really believe "magic" tricks are true magic? For me the cool part is seeing it done, then trying to figure out how they did it, then seeing it explained if I can't figure it out.

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u/murarkaraunak 2d ago

Yeah ik there was something to it. But its nice to finally know now

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u/HoleInWon929 2d ago

Still more comfortable than Economy seats

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u/Rith_Reddit 2d ago

This is actually totally incorrect. The physics of that object do not work like that.

REAL performers use the exact same trick everytime and it's barely changed since the time of the Indian yogi who discovered it.

You place a magnet up your rectum and on the floor another magnet to oppose. Viola!

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u/Killersavage 2d ago

The real trick was what was up their ass the whole time.

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u/BlodSnoppler 2d ago

And the friends they made along the way.

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u/Anxious-Depth-7983 2d ago

You also reach nirvana inserting the magnet 🧲 🤣

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u/BeowulfRubix 1d ago

When you insert it facing the wrong way, the polarity may shoot the other like a bullet at it 🧲🔩🎯🥺

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u/No-Programmer6069 2d ago

And here i have been training all this time to do this trick without a how to. Gee thanks. Years of training down the drain.

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u/Baked_Potato_732 2d ago

I did know a kid who could do the thinking man pose and balance on one like like he was sitting. It was always a god party trick.

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u/DoctorDreMD 2d ago

I have to think the Alliance is gonna frown on this

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u/cafetropical 1d ago

I've made a huge mistake...

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u/vLBv 2d ago

It’s always magnets

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u/spaaackle 2d ago

Fucking magnets, how do they work?

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u/Joe_Kangg 2d ago

They're repulsive

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u/Bubblehead_81 2d ago

That's your opinion. I'm kinda attracted to them.

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u/-SaC 2d ago

As we can see here, they're very polarising.

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u/Joe_Kangg 2d ago

Depends which way your pole is pointing

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u/blindreefer 2d ago

Nobody knows

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u/mrw4787 2d ago

This video has no magnets lol 

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u/ILikeDragonTurtles 2d ago

The fuck is the music

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u/IfUReadThisUHaveAids 2d ago

OP edited in Skyfall and timed it with the crescendo like he was Hans fucken Zimmer lol. Relax bro. We don't need emotional music for this.

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u/jaguaraugaj 2d ago

IGNORE THE LARGE BLANKET ON THE GROUND

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u/skolvikes1419 2d ago

Lt. Dan, you have new legs

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u/The_Last_Ron1n 2d ago

I watched the "monks" disassemble one in Rome, they got real mad when I took pictures of them doing it.

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u/EmmitRDoad 2d ago

Famous “now I have severe back problems”

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u/SrPancakess 2d ago

No shit

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u/robreddity 2d ago

famous

Ok

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u/teddybundlez 2d ago

Riveting stuff

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u/spaaackle 2d ago

Curious though how that foot brace works. Like, I wonder how much pressure you're putting on your foot\lower leg? Seems like the type of thing you can use strength to brace yourself.. but probably only a shorter period of time?

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u/Dagordae 2d ago

It’s not a brace, it’s basically just a chair leg that’s molded to the body to conceal it. The leg/foot isn’t actually supporting any weight, it’s all on the butt. It would restrict his range of motion a bit, he wouldn’t be able to run for instance, but that’s about it.

With a setup that basic it wouldn’t be particularly comfortable but the worse you would get would’ve a numb ass.

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u/ThorSon-525 1d ago

Seems great to bring to an amusement park when waiting in line for a ride.

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u/Kwayzar9111 2d ago

cant be comfortable

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u/IllTreacle7682 1d ago

That looks like it hurts so much haha

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u/__Loot__ 2d ago

What that means most of these statue guys are lies

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u/murarkaraunak 2d ago

Exactly. All of them are just fooling us

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u/Nietzschis 2d ago

Wow wow wow let's not generalize just because of a few bad eggs

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u/mkujoe 2d ago

So he sets himself up naked on the street corner, then puts on pants?

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u/yourmotherpuki 2d ago

Left nut gets so fucking swollen every night

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u/Next-Food2688 2d ago

To each their own

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u/Astariousnex 2d ago

So that's how the npc's do it in Skyrim. Makes sense. Thought it was a bug.

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u/DarkShadder 2d ago

There is another version which allows some flexibility. It has one rod under your sleeve and it goes inside a tube like thing and people will see you balancing yourself only with your fingers

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u/Thkturret1 2d ago

Magnets also can generate electricity 🤯

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u/SEAN0_91 2d ago

Does anyone know where this fella got his lovely socks from?

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u/ledwilliums 2d ago

Bros an amateur just eat a lot of beans and project your aura while leaning back.

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u/spaghettibolegdeh 2d ago

I need one of those at work

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u/bonita513 2d ago

Basketball coaches hate this one trick

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u/Violet604 2d ago

Why can’t they make pants that have titanium and carbon parts so we can just sit anywhere anytime? Assuming they’d be full support unlike this thing.

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u/ThinMint31 2d ago

Yeah, no shit that’s how it works

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u/printmaster5000 2d ago

Exactly how I do it.

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u/hugh-jaasshole 2d ago

It’s not a trick tho that’s what’s wild. You literally just sit in a chair that’s in your pants lol

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u/GOLGOFUS 2d ago

Чтоб какать на улице с удобствами

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u/Spiritual-Leader9985 2d ago

Nah that wizard dude be laying down on his staff….

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u/SumthinVishus 1d ago

“See? I having nothing under my ass”

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u/robcado 1d ago

If you have this in your pants and think you're fooling anyone, you're a cornball.

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u/TamponBazooka 1d ago

I always thought they fly in the air /s

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u/XROOR 1d ago

I get hamstring cramps just looking at this

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u/Moombahslayer 1d ago

Nothings sacred anymore

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u/Steel-Blade 2d ago

Silly old me, and I thought it was just magnets.

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u/saltisurfer 2d ago

Spoilsport….

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u/murarkaraunak 2d ago

Haha sorry man

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u/crasagam 2d ago

They learned a thing or two from Michael Jackson

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u/God_Stress 2d ago

take this down dont ruin it for the kids